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From: engber@thylacine.CS.WISC.EDU (Mike Engber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5
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Date: 15 Nov 89 20:44:56 GMT
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>Seems like you are saying that Excel 2.2 is faster
>than 1.5 on the faster machines.
>
>I tried 2.2 on our MacII and SE/30 and it was slow
>as a dead dog also on those machines.
>
>Has ANYONE run faster with 2.2 than 1.5, or at
>least at comparable speed?

I have a spreadsheet that runs much faster on my SE/30 with v2.2 than
it did with v1.5. I believe it's because v2.2 only recalculates the
cells that have changed rather than everything. I used to have to
keep autocalculate turned off - now it's fast enough that I don't
have to.

-ME